Stara Lipa 19 (Markovi)

While every house in Slovenia has a civic address, many houses also carry a household name. These names are how other people typically referred to that family. This house has the name of Markovi. This name is directly derived from the name of the patriarch of this household.

Through the period of our studies, we have found eleven houses which originally carried the Rogina surname in Stara Lipa. This is the tenth of the eleven houses (in order of house address). The Rogina surname is one that is most common in Stara Lipa in the Vinica parish but also quite common in the neighbouring Dragatuš parish.

The oldest record we have found to date for a person from this house is for Marko Rogina b. 1796. He married Barbara Šutej b. 1800. Together, they had at least 7 children, including: